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by jstx1 1410 days ago
There's probably a bunch of other people could have writeen it just as well or better and it wouldn't have made a difference to the valuation of the company anyway.
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You can throw up what-ifs and counterfactuals all day long - gsibble was the one who wrote the software.
That's actually quite an insulting thing to say.
But probably true nonetheless.
I'm not going to write a trieste on why my abilities were unique and let me write this software beyond to say I had worked in that specific industry for a long while, but there were not many people that could have pulled it off. When I left, they had to replace me with significantly more people at a significantly higher cost and it cost their growth and stock price quite a bit.